“Ridiculously breath-taking”: Shohei Ohtani roars with a 101.4 mph fastball, records his career’s fastest pitch

“Ridiculously breath-taking”: Shohei Ohtani roars with a 101.4 mph fastball, records his career’s fastest pitch

Shohei Ohtani

Shohei Ohtani never gets tired of proving that he is one of the greats to step in the ballpark over the course of Major League Baseball’s history. He is known to throw out pitches clocking upper 90s but yet again Ohtani steps up to deliver a 101.4 mph fastball which made his fans go bizarre.

Shohei Ohtani threw out a pitch that also made him record the fastest strikeout pitch by an Angels pitcher in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008). He leads the Los Angeles Angels in hits (132), RBI (86), and walks (66). His 33 home runs are second only to centerfielder Mike Trout, who has 34 on the year.

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“Just a lot more awesomeness from him,” Los Angeles Angels interim manager Phil Nevin said. “It was a pretty good outing for him, including that moment.”

“It just felt like a couple of unlucky hits here and there,” Shohei Ohtani said through interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. “I just tried to block it out and make my pitches. I just told myself to trust myself and threw my pitches.”

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Shohei Ohtani leaves the game after calling out the trainers, appears to be a blister

Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani

Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Angels were facing the American League West leaders Houston Astros when he threw the fastest pitch in his career, 6-1 on Saturday night at Minute Maid Park. Shohei Ohtani added, “I was very satisfied with the command and movement on that pitch,” he is 11-8 with a 2.57 ERA in 24 starts for the Angels this season.

As Shohei Ohtani was warming up to start the sixth, he motioned to the dugout, and Nevin and a trainer came out to check on him. After conversing for several minutes, Ohtani walked off and was replaced by Jimmy Herget.

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“It was more getting him out of there before it opens,” Phil Nevin said. “He’s had them before. He manages his body as well as anybody, and if that thing rips open, it probably puts his next start in jeopardy, so he got out of there before it did that.”

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